Hey!
Join me and fellow Y/A authors Allen Zadoff and Andrew Smith at this year’s West Hollywood Book Fair. We’ll be hanging out at the LAYA (Los Angeles Young Adult Authors) Booth from 3pm-4pm (West Hollywood Park, 647 N. San Vicente Blvd)
If you’re coming to the LA Times Festival of Books this coming weekend, I’ll be on the YA Stage on Saturday, April 24th at 3pm with Jane Smiley and Cylin Busby talkin’ tween lit… Maybe I’ll see you there?
We brought our library stories to City Hall and presented our book, Saved By A Hard Cover, to the City Council. We asked the city councilmembers to think outside the box, get creative and to use their imagination when they approach the imminent budget cuts that lie ahead. They seemed to listen to our plea to Save the Libraries. Now if only the mayor would!!!
In response to the threatening budget cuts to our young adult library programs and librarians here in Los Angeles, we are staging a writing workshop at the Los Feliz Library on Tuesday, March 16th at 4pm where teens will write stories, essays, poems and create images about what the library means to them. We will then take the content created at the workshop and spin it into a hand-bound book that we will present to the City Council at a strategic time in the coming weeks.
Time is of the essence, and we have to generate the content quickly, so we’re calling for all ‘tweens/teens interested in being published in this book to bring their own pens, pencils, paper, notebooks and laptops… and their imagination… to the workshop.
Check out page 12 in the Los Feliz Ledger’s November ‘09 issue! http://issuu.com/losfelizledger/docs/lfl_nov09?viewMode=magazine
Cecil Castellucci
Susan Casey
Cherry Cheva
Benjamin Esch
Cara Haycak
Anna Hays
Amy Goldman Koss
Andrew Smith
Sally Nemeth
Carol Snow
Michael Reisman
Heather Tomlinson
We’re doing our show, which has a THEME SONG and includes AWESOME GAMES that test contestants’ knowledge of YA and MG literature, and then
you can get signed copies of our books at the Mrs. Nelson’s bookstore booth! So swing on by!Join us for a ‘tween/teen writing workshop in Glendale! Here’s the link for more info…
http://library.ci.glendale.ca.us/library_connection_adams_square.asp
Michael Reisman, Jordanna Fraiberg and I had the privilege of reading and conducting a writing workshop at the Echo Park Library to celebrate Teen Read Week. Thanks to stellar librarian Wendy McPherson, who organized the program, we had a huge enthusiastic crowd and were treated to new and inspiring voices of the talented young writers who attended the writing workshop.
Hey,
I’m doing another writing workshop in Los Angeles at the Hammer Museum. Please join me if you can…
The Hammer Museum - Sunday, October 25, 12-2pm - 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024
INVESTIGATING CHARACTER
In this dynamic interactive writing experience, students are invited to think creatively on their feet and playfully discover new characters, both on their own and as part of a collective of young writers. A case file of the student’s missing character is uncovered during the workshop.
http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/311
Come celebrate Teen Read Week in Los Angeles! Join me and two very cool Y/A authors Jordanna Fraiberg http://jordannafraiberg.com/, and Michael Reisman http://www.michaelreisman.com for a group reading and writing workshop at Echo Park Library, 1410 W. Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026
I’d love to see you there 
Anna